Current Exhibit

Vaquero:Genesis of the Texas Cowboy

Featuring photographs of Bill Wittliff

On Exhibit through March 15, 2019

In the early 1970s, noted Texas historian Joe Frantz offered photographer Bill Wittliff
a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity—to visit a ranch in northern Mexico where the vaqueros
still worked cattle in traditional ways. This exhibition features photographs with
bilingual narrative text that reveal the muscle, sweat and drama that went into roping
a calf in thick brush or breaking a wild horse in the saddle.